Detachable buckle-frame



(No Model.)

T. WAND. DBTAUHABLE BUCKLE FRAME.

Patented May 2, 1893.

1 nouwxsumomu D c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS WAND, OF ALMO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO OSGOOD JOHNSON, OF BRIDGE, IDAHO.

DETACHABLE BUCKLE-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,804, dated May 2, 1893. Application filed February 28, 1893. Serial No. 464,088. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS WVAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Almo, in the county of Cassia and State of Idaho, have invented a new and useful Detachable Buckle- Frame, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in fasteners for buckles; the object being to provide a device for securing a buckle frame upon a strap at any point of the latter for the purpose of adjustment and this without the necessity of withdrawing the end of the strap from the keeper or otherwise handling the strap, whereby the buckle is especially adapted, together with the fastener, for use in connection with tugs of harnesses.

Other objects and advantages of theinvention will appear in the following description, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings :Figure 1 is an elevation of a tug provided with a buckle frame and fastener constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the fastener. Fig. 4 is a transverse section. Fig. '5 is a plan of the fastener complete.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates an ordinary rectangular buckle frame, having the usual opposite side and end bars, one of the latter being connected to the tug section 3 the front end of which is connected to the hame t in the usual manner. The section 3 is also provided with the usual keeper 5, through which the end of the tug 2 is passed, after having been passed through the frame 1, so that the cross bar of the frame at the rear end thereof lies outside of and across said tug. The tug it will be understood is provided with the usual perforations 6.

In constructing the fastening device, I form a cross-bar or pintle 7, and integral with the same and at the center form a tongue 8, extending at a right angle from the pintle and provided near its juncture with the same with a bend 9. The outer ends of the pintle are bifurcated or recessed as at 10 and have pivoted in each as at 11 a bail section or arm 12. These arms 12 terminate at their front ends in inwardly disposed keepers or lugs 13, while their rear ends are converged to form finger rests 14. A spring 15 isconnected to the rear side of the pintle 7, and the terminals of the spring lie against the converged finger rests 14 of the arms so that it exerts a constant tendency to force the lugs or keepers 13 inwardly.

In operation, in order to adjust the tug, that is, shorten or lengthen the same, the end of the tug is drawn through the keeper 5 in order to make the tug shorter, and the front ends of the arms 12 separated by compressing the rear ends thereofv against the tendency of the spring 15, after which the end of the tongue 8 is passed through a convenient perforationinthetugandunderthe frontcrossbarof the buckle frame, said tongue passing through such perforation of the tug as is immediately in front of the rear cross bar of the frame. Pressure upon the rear ends of the arms 12 is now removed, and the keepers 13 engage the edges of the tug and overlap the same between the buckle frame 1 and the surface of the tug. It is now evident that the buckle frame is securely connected with the tug, and that the same may be adjusted to any point along the tug Without the necessity of handling the tug or withdrawing the end from the keeper.

The fastener may be provided with a guard 16, secured to the pintle, and serving to protect the arms and prevent'any accidental movement upon their part. c Having described my invention, what I claim isl. The combination with the tug and tug section, of the rectangular buckle frame connected to the section and receiving the tug, and the fastener consisting of the transverse pintle, the tongue extending forwardly from the same and passed through a perforation in the tug in front of the rear cross bar of the buckle, the opposite arms pivoted to the ends of the pintle and having their front ends terminating in inwardly disposed keepers and a spring interposed between and spreading their rear ends, substantially as specified.

2. The herein described fasten er for buckles,

Wardly disposed keeper 13 and in rear of the pivot in the curved ends 14, and the spring 15 secured to the pintle and having its terminals resting against the inner faces and adapted to spread the rear ends of the arms, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, THOMAS WAND.

Witnesses:

J. E. BURKE, J. H. WALLACE. 

